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Friday, November 29, 2013

Favourite Quotations

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste , and amuses himself by applying it , triumphantly , wherever he travels .

                                                                                     ....................Henry Adams

Syllables govern the world .

                                                                              ................... Sir Edward Coke

A man's body and his mind........are exactly like a jerkin's lining;- rumple the one, - you rumple the other .

                                                                              ................ Wallace Stevens

The great end of life is not Knowledge but Action.

                                                                                .................Thomas Henry Huxley

If Folly link with Elegance

No man knows which is which.

                                             ...............  Yeats